I thought I had my beliefs thought out but reading the uni-bomber manifesto and listening to some of JP's arguments has made me rethink things.

There are other things and other people who make me take their arguments into account but not as much.

I meant that the don't know that I drink. I can't edit my last comment because I didn't know about the time limit and I'm 6 pints in.

My colleagues do know that I drink. I've never come in sober.

I've been in a similar blame situation with a client where another third party tried to blame us, but that's definitely not why "I did not that shit".

I did that shit because I did the best I could with what they asked us to do. There were 3 teams on the project - 2 from our consultancy and another third party. The other team and other party started first but were way behind so we're working late nights and over weekends. We came in as the AWS integration layer between the 2 teams at the point of freaking out about being late. We calmly told them that we don't work evenings or weekends, we do our work in billable hours. We estimate correctly. We finished 2 weeks ahead of schedule, implemented fun "nice to haves" for morale and helped the other 2 teams by adding things to our layer.

Even after all of that, I don't attribute any blame to any team and I still think of it as one of the most interesting and fun project that I've worked in in my 6 years of consultancy

I work for a consultancy and we have a Product Manager even though we've never built a product. Loads of people keep going to him with ideas for a "product" but none have been. It's always been a very bespoke solution that people think can be sold. Yes, it can be sold as a solution to other people, but only if they use exactly the same tech stack and have exactly the same use case. We're also happy to change it to the meet any client's needs. That doesn't sound like a product to me.

I can sum up the toothbrushing things into one for me:
- don't mistake not liking something and not feeling good after it for an allergic reaction to mint, peppermint and spearmint.
- don't keep thinking it's the only option because there are other options even though they're niche and not advertised.
- don't still have an aversion to brushing your teeth based on how you felt about it for your formative teen years.

The last one is subconscious and also facetious.

I prefer to spread out my "health kick" throughout the year. 2.5 days a month not drinking is the same.

@netikras
Or he'll be stuck in too many meetings trying to convince other management that shit needs to get done, to get shit done.

While I agree that as a UK citizen, I have a better life than people in most countries, I was born into this through no fault of my own. That shouldn't be held against me unless I have used it in a an entitled way.

Remember that employment is a vacation...a vacation from poverty.

My company even tried to push me forward for a promotion during the pay rise time because my manager left. Management loved that idea because it meant that they could under pay me for market rate for my current role, still with a large pay rise, but then say that the pay rise was my promotion salary increase.

So, I'd have had been earning at least £7k below the lowest salary that we were offering for the role that I'd be a line manager for? Ehhhhhh...what?

I guess you I should have been thankful when I was told "you've done an amazing job this year so we're going to *reward* you by bringing you up to market rate" instead of taking that as my cue to leave. Being brought up to "market rate" has earned me 33% more and cost them me.

The person who told me that let slip that the company's market rate was actually more than I was on after my pay rise.

Just wait until you learn other cloud providers. Then you'll see how they are beautiful in their own way, make the beauty of other providers seem like shit but also hide their own shit.

Knowledge transfer only gets you so far

At least its not Bing...oh wait!

@Oktokolo apt choice of words there.

The global one should be "rich politicians create poor constituents"

Match in functional-style languages is much more powerful than switch or if/else.

I guess what is used is dependent on language and required performance. Some are just conveniences added from other languages but do the same as other syntax under the hood.

@PepeTheFrog that happened within my old company. They had to give me an expedited pay rise because they made an offer to someone in a junior role to me - who I was going to be managing - for a higher salary than I was on. Its safe to say that I was the least paid in the senior role by far even though I was the most asked for in project resourcing and there for the longest.

@hardCoding oh i know. I'm now doing the same job for a 30% higher salary.

I was in the team for the longest and I was seen as the most valuable senior. All I asked for is to be paid fairly, but I was the least compensated.

@Oktokolo

I completely agree. I've been debating with myself for quite a while now whether not not I should get a dog or not. I don't drive, so being able to take it to a good vet has been a large consideration.

@b2plane, I echo what @Oktokolo said, if you resent your pet for costing you too much in medical bills, then you should do the best thing for you both and put him down humanely if nobody else would take him.

I've seen "market rate" being massively different between companies. I was once told by my director that I was being rewarded for my hard work by being given a large pay rise. When I was talking to that same person about being promoted to the person above me, I asked what the market rate was. The "market rate" was £2k above what I was actually being paid. I was also the lowest paid engineer in the team, although I was the one there for the longest. That conversation made me want to go somehwere else.

The new company's "market rate" was 20% higher for the same job title when I joined. I actually have less responsibility and stress than I had before.

@arekxv I've tried learning both before but they have their own challenges. I k ow some functional things from Scala but going pure functional is challenging with Haskell and borrowing/lifetimes is challenging for me with Rust.

I ended my stress-filled 11 hour work day today with a shot of homemade Serbian brandy. That stuff will strip the paint off of a cargo ship, but it definitely helped pushing the final fixes.

Being content with the same thing day in and day out is a very rare thing, but it's possible when you find your passion.

Not for a moment does that mean that those people are simple or illiterate.

Specifically taking the sheep farmers that you're talking about, it is not simple and cannot be done of illeterate over enough years to be happy with it.

It's a very insulting comment to make.

I know where you're coming from. There are times that you can be productive but can feel unproductive at the same time due to the environment.

I feel like that just now. I've completely rewritten a sequential SQL ETL that is monolithic python scripts with embedded SQL into a CLI that executes .sql files in a DAG based on a yaml config file.

I'm able to implement feedback from the end users to add new features very quickly but it will likely be the middle of next year until it is actually fully adopted.

I can feel productive implementing the new features but won't really feel like it has been worth it until the end users actually adopt it.

The worst thing is when I've seen people convert a DF from pyspark to scala spark because they need to send it to/ receive from a JDBC connection. They convert it on the way in and then on the way out again.

There are also 2 versions of Spark supported in R - sparkR and sparklyr. One is way behind the other and both are way behind python and scala.

I had the choice of mac or Windows. I'm the only one in the engineering team who chose a mac

Big companies have managed to patent/trademark seemingly arbitrary things like Boeing using 7**, Peugeot using *0* and Porsche using 9**.

Do you definitely have to have a name that may infringe on a patent/trademark? Do you want to take that risk? Do you have the funds to fight it if they find out?

@red-knot for seizures, Azure DevOps is a he way to go. From the flickerong that I've seen it could definitely cause a real seizure. Moving to any other tab was fine though so not chrome issue.

I forgot about it yesterday! 😩 I did day 1 after work yesterday and I've learnt from my mistakes before to start with a good framework for running each day.